| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing |
| Date: | 2007-05-16 17:29:35 |
| Message-ID: | 464B3F7F.6080400@commandprompt.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review
> patches, I often get the reply, "Oh, yea, I need to do that".
>
> It seems there is a lot of reliance on Tom to get the patches applied,
> but I don't think that is fair or reasonable. I think we need more
> urgency on the part of everyone to make faster progress. Patch
> reviewers and committers need to take more initiative to get things done
> rather than wait for some external force to prompt them.
We have *alot* of people (comparatively) who can assist in reviewing
code that are not committers. Even if they can not commit, they can help
insure that patches are in a state that can be more easily reviewed for
committers to actually test and apply.
Joshua D. Drake
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